reporting from the nation's capital, i'm jeff pegues. ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> brennan: breaking news tonight: a stunning new projection of nearly 300,000 dead. could the death toll in america double in the next four months? and one thing that you can do to save tens of thousands of lives. plus, inside a hospital on the brink. the desperate doctors in hazmat suits. >> we need the help. our house is burning. >> brennan: and the mother who can only see her newborn on her phone. testing positive: ohio's governor announces he has the virus. how he learned his diagnosis just hours before he was set to greet the president. tracking travelers: the big apple sets up big checkpoints. the special agents now tasked with stopping anyone entering new york city, and the consequences if visitors don't quarantine. back-to-school battle: tensions

high over reopenings. >> i'm talking directly to you because you do not respect me! >> brennan: tonight, why teachers and school nurses are quitting their jobs. presidential predictions: president trump suggests there could be a vaccine before the election and again repeats the false claim that children are immune from covid. in the crosshairs: did the leaders of the nation's biggest guns rights group waste money on private jets and luxury vacations? the new lawsuit tonight against the n.r.a. dangerous recall: the new alert from the f.d.a. about something in your refrigerator. what you need to know. and finally tonight, one family's commitment to helping drenrnir bs evening neth reg from the nation'l. >> brennan: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. norah is off tonight.

i'm margaret brennan. we begin with breaking news. a staggering and sobering projection showing the coronavirus pandemic is only getting worse here in the u.s. a research model regularly used by the white house now predicts the death toll here could hit almost 300,000 in the next four months. that's close to double the number of people who have already died nationwide since the pandemic began. health officials say tens of thousands of lives could be saved if all americans wore masks. nowhere in the u.s. is that life-and-death struggle more obvious than on the texas border, where tonight, doctors say they're desperate for help and hospital beds. nd as we come on the air tonight there's yet another example of just how far and fast the virus is spreading.to greet president trump in ohio, that state's governor, mike dewine, tested positive for the virus. dewine has been one of a handful of republican governors who has argued for strict mask wearing

in his state. there's also breaking news just coming in from the national football league. at least 66 players now say they are opting out of playing this season because of coronavirus. all of that comes as parents and school districts are facing the difficult decision about whether to send students back to classrooms or teach them at home. there's a lot of new reporting tonight, and our team of correspondents is standing by to cover it all. cbs' manuel bojorquez leads us off from miami. manny. >> reporter: well, margaret, florida's florida's governor today continued his push for in-person instruction and said he would like to see school sports resume, too. that is something other states have delayed. in the meantime, as you mentioned, ohio's governor revealed today he's tested positive. >> big surprise to me, and certainly a big surprise to our family. >> reporter: governor mike dewine's diagnosis came just two days after reminding people toot

places of worship, showing howat ast 91 otherafter a siservice. in texas' hard hit rio grande valley, doctors and nurses are still seeing a stream of covid- 19 patients, painstakingly turning them on to their stomachs to help them breathe. it's difficult to find i.c.u. beds for others. >> it was 49 calls that we had to make before we could secure a bed for this patient. he debate over reopeninols fron and center, as some have already quarantined dozens of students and staff due to new cases. amy westmoreland resigned from her job as a school nurse in paulding county, georgia. why did you decide you had to leave? >> i read that masks would be a personal choice. i just-- i was infuriated, honestly, and i knew that i wouldn't be safe and the kids wouldn't be safe. >> reporter: she said she saw scenes like this one coming: crowded hallways, few masks. >> i was angry.

i was heartsick. they were so close to each other. >> reporter: things got heated at this school board meeting in jefferson parish, louisiana, after a concerned parent noticed a member looking at her phone. >> because you do not respect me, i talk to you! >> reporter: the meeting was shut down. but parents like single mom adriana alvarez of chicago say not having schools open could also mean losing their livelihoods. >> just me and him, and if i stop working we both stop eating so i'm literally stuck. >> reporter: there's renewed concern over the nation's nursing homes. officials say 19 people have died so far at this nursing home in missouri city, texas, near houston. in los angeles, new efforts to curb the spread include shutting off utilities at homes used for large paries. but there are glimmers of hope. patients at blythedale children's hospital in new york are seeing their family members face to face for the first time in nearly four months. >> hi!

>> reporter: they include four- year-old maria, who suffers from a congenital joint disease, and her mother, katherine. >> it's a big relief, really, really big relief. she's my princess. suddenly i can breathe again. >> reporter: manuel bojorquez, cbs news, miami. >> reporter: i'm mola lenghi in new york city, where there's an advisory of sorts for visitors and residents arriving on planes, trains, and automobiles. >> if you come here, you must quarantine. it is not optional. >> reporter: travelers from 34 states and puerto rico, deemed coronavirus hot spots, will now be greeted by covid checkpoints set up to enforce new york state's mandatory 14-day quarantine. >> this is serious stuff, and it's time for everyone to realize it. >> reporter: mayor bill de blasio said contract tracers will be positioned at the city's bus and train stations, checking i.d.s to register travelers. but the mayor's announcement seemed to catch the port authority, which oversees much of the region's transportation infrastructure, off guard.

the port authority telling cbs news today they were unaware of the mayor's initiative prior to his announcement yesterday, and now some are raising concerns about civil lis. >> i'm not crazy about the idea of just randomly stopping people like that without probable cause. >> reporter: there are still questions about how exactly this two-week quarantine will be enforced. the city's threatening up to $10,000 in fines to travelers from covid hot-spot states who do not comply with the mandate, margaret. >> brennan: mola lenghi in manhattan. today, the coronavirus cast a shadow over president trump's visit to ohio, a state that is crucial to his reelection campaign. it was intended to highlight his efforts to boost u.s. manufacturing. the president also veered off script with an attack on rival joe biden's faith. here's cbs' paula reid. >> reporter: president trump's campaign-style trip to ohio got off to a rocky start today when the state's governor, mike dewine, tested positive for covid just before he was to meet

mr. trump at the airport. >> i just said i look forward to seeing the governor. they said, "sir, he just tested positive." >> reporter: amid sagging polls, the president gave a speech aides said would include a vision for the president's second term, but he also repeated the false claim that kids are immune when it comes to covid. >> very young children are incredibly powerful. they're much stronger than all of us when it comes to the immune system, it's an incredible thing to see. >> reporter: he also kept up his attacks on rival joe biden. >> he's against god. he's against guns. he's against energy, our kind of energy. >> reporter: the biden campaign shot back, referencing the president's controversial photo op in lafayette square saying donald trump had thrown a priest out of his church just so he could profane it and a bible for his own cynical optics. but biden made this comment: >> unlike the african-american community with notable

exceptions, the latino community is incredibly diverse community. with a credibly different attitudes about different things. >> reporter: mr. trump called it an insult. >> president trump: joe biden this morning totally disparaged and insulted the black community. what he said is incredible. and i don't know what is going on with him. >> reporter: today, the commission on presidential debates rejected the trump campaign's request to have a fourth debate earlier in the cycle to account for early mail- in voting. with the economy continuing to slump, it appears that voters will not get any immediate help from congress. >> we're not having a short-term extension. >> reporter: with a deal unlikely, mr. trump said he's considering trying to get relief to workers through executive action, though it's unclear how effective that would be. today, the president suggested that a covid vaccine could be available by election day, but that's a significantly earlier timeline than the one offered by members of his own coronavirus task force. they've said that a vaccine could be available at the end of

this year or possibly early next year. but some health experts have expressed concern that the administration may try to rush this vaccine and potentially jeopardize its safety. margaret. >> brennan: paula reid at the white house tonight. well, the national rifle association now faces a major legal fight. new york state is suing to dissolve the n.r.a., a nonprofit gun advocacy organization with nearly five million members. new york's attorney general accuses its top executives of corruption and misspending. more now from jeff pegues. >> reporter: the lawsuit argues that the n.r.a.'s leadership used one of the most powerful organizations in america as a personal piggy bank. >> in the spirit of true patriots, we are fighting back. >> reporter: calling its c.e.o. wayne lapierre a central figure in the alleged schemes, today, new york's attorney general outlined her case. >> for years, the n.r.a.

diverted millions and millions of dollars away from its charitable mission for personal use by senior leadership. >> reporter: the lawsuit names four n.r.a. executives, including lapierre. court documents outline his lavish spending, a family stay at a luxury private hotel at a cost of more than $37,000. on at least eight occasions, private jets to and from the bahamas at a total cost of over half a million dollars, even multiple luxury hunting safaris in africa, all of it paid for by the n.r.a. harry litman is a former federal prosecutor. >> you can't take the dues and the money that members give you and make it instead into yacht trips and private jet trips and five-star travel, et cetera, and then lie about it. >> reporter: today, the n.r.a. fired back, calling the lawsuit baseless, as well as a

transparent attempt to score political points in the 2020 election. and the new york lawsuit isn't the only one the n.r.a. will be fighting. today, d.c.'s attorney general, he also took action. he also accused n.r.a. erting fundsf diverting funds for lavish spending. margaret. >> brennan: jeff pegues in washington. tonight the number of new jobless claims shows the devastating burden being shouldered by american workers. nearly 1.2 million americans applied for unemployment benefits last week. that's the 20th straight week with claims crossing a million. tonight, cbs' mark strassmann hears from two out-of-work americans, one who lost the $600 weekly unemployment check, and another who's been lost in the system. >> i'm lost and i'm scared. >> reporter: gwen geeter supervised an atlanta bakery's kitchen. she was furloughed in mid-march. in late may, all her

unemployment benefits abruptly stopped, no explanation. muon do u ve now?>> $3.53n my bn eporhat's e scar>>omeless. i've been there with my three children before, you know, sleeping in our car. you know, i don't-- i don't want to do that again. >> reporter: for more than 25 million jobless americans, washington's extra $600 a week was a financial life line. without it, sandy villarto, a furloughed housekeeper grows desperate. >> sometimes i can't even go to sleep at night thinking what am i going to do tomorrow or what am i going to do next week? >> reporter: this arizona family's only income is her unemployment benefits. >> i don't know how i'm going to survive on $214 a week. >> reporter: georgia promised to review geeter's unemployment case on september 10. that's in five weeks. >> it feels like you're being

punished and you're like, okay, unemployment, where are you? >> reporter: we contacted geask f woying to retch $3.53. mark strassmann, cbs news, atlanta. >> brennan: now to beirut, lebanon, where grief has turned to outrage following two explosions that wiped out portions of the capital. today, the death toll climbed to at least 149 with more than 5,000 wounded. cbs' imtiaz tyab is in beirut tonight. imtiaz? >> reporter: well, margaret, the u.s. military is sending three cargo planes full of food, water, and medical supplies following tuesday's massive explosion, which was so powerful, it left a smoking crater that stretched more than 700 feet and registered as a 3.3-magnitude earthquake. ( explosion )

beirut's busy city center torn to pieces. life for so many turned into a living hell, including for seema jillani, a texas-born doctor seen here soothing her daughter in the back of a packed ambulance. four-year-old iman was badly injured after her home was all but destroyed in the explosion. >> i didn't even grab my stethoscope which to me tells me a lot, where my head was. and it really kills me that i'm not at a hospital right now offering my services. i wish i could be. >> reporter: across beirut are many more harrowing stories of survival and streets strewn with debris. this was the beating heart of beirut's legendary late-night district, and in just a few seconds, devastation. shell-shocd resi lebanese leaders of being thugs, saying they're to blame for all this misery and for ignoring repeated warnings about the more than 2,700 tons of russian-owned

ammonium nitrate stored at the port for years. and so yet again, the people of this city are left to pick up the pieces themselves as they continue to endure the horrors of what appears to be an entirely avoidable disaster. now, grief is fast turning to anger here, including growing calls for revolution against this government. in fact, one well-known television news personality has tweeted, "either they keep killing us or we kill them." margaret. >> brennan: imtiaz, thank you. there is still much more news ahead on tonight's "cbs evening news." a major recall and health alert about prepared meals containing ns the dire new prediction about the atlantic hurricane season. could we see a record number of powerful storms? and later, the family project that's shining a light on some of history's untold stories. y .

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